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2014 Bill(s)

* SB 502
Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
Status: S Veterans & Health
Description: Let a mother breast feed in public. Prohibit any local ordnance from restricting that right. Exempt it from charged with sexual misconduct or public indecency.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 503
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Transportation
    Description: Exempt from the requirement to wear a helmet for a three-wheeled vehicle that is enclosed and has seat belts with shoulder restraints.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 611
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Prohibit a hospital from imposing extra charges on a patient if the patient's health insurance policy covered the charges, other than patient payments required under the health coverage plan. Require the hospital to submit all charges to the health insurance company.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * CCS SB 612
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: GOVERNOR VETOED
    Description: Extend the sunset for allocation of the non-resident entertainers and athletic team tax to agencies such as the Arts Council and Humanities Council. The final version includes business sales tax breaks and restrictions on changing sales tax rules. Legislative staff estimate the bill could cost the state more than $15 million per year. In his veto letter, the governor wrote this was one of several bills providing special interest tax breaks that would cost state and local government $776 million per year.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - CCS SB 612 (05/04/2014): 3rd reading of the CCS that added various tax reduction changes, one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed in the last day of the session providng $425 million in tax breaks to special in
  • House roll call - CCS SB 612 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading of the CCS that added various tax reduction changes, one of 8 bills the governor charged lawmakers passed in the last day of the session providng $425 million in tax breaks to special in
  • Get the veto letter
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 628
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: H 3rd Read
    Description: Remove the August 2017 expiration of a law authorizing some public universities to transfer real estate without legislative approval.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 669
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Perf
    Description: Designate the exercise jumping jacks invented by Gen. John Pershing as the official exercise of Missouri.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 804
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: IN SCS SB 787
    Description: Impose restrictions on lethal injection provisions in administering the death penalty. Prohibit purchase with cash. Prohibit a drug seller from being on the execution team.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 811
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Establish provisions by which not approved by FDA for general use can be used on a patient with terminal illness upon consent, if the drug has completed phase one of a cl9inical trial.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 828
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Let an advanced practice nurse working in a collaborative practice with a physician order restraint or seclusion of a patient in a mental health facility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 847
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Various changes in Medicaid that physicians have been seeking. Require HMOs accept any doctor willing to abide by the HMO's contract. Require hospitals to report to the state the prices of medical procedures that the state would post on its website.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 864
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Allow ventilator-associated pneumonia to be included in a provision requiring hospital reports to the state.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 910
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Add additional medical procedures for which hospitals are required to report infections including births, hip and knee replacement and any other infection reports required by Medicare or Medicaid.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 921
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Governmental Accountability
    Description: Establish a statewide database of drug prescriptions. Prohibit the data being entered into any database outside the control of the Health Department. Allow the data to be kept for no more than one year.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 922
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Jobs
    Description: Lower the maximum amount of tax credits that can be awarded for low-income housing construction and preservation of historic buildings.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 934
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Small Business
    Description: Require health coverage plans to offer coverage for childhood obesity and limit the rate that can be charged. Require schools include body mass index in student fitness assessments.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SB 956
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: S Veterans & Health
    Description: Impose requirements on services that assess quality and cost of health care providers. Require the company to hire an independent organization to review how the company makes assessments. Presumably would cover services under the federal health care law exchanges.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * SCS SJR 27
    Sponsor: Schaaf, Rob
    Status: VOTER APPROVED
    Description: Include electronic communictions and data in the state Constitution's provisions on the right against unreasonable searches.
    See: 
  • Senate roll call - SCS SJR 27 (04/03/2014): 3rd reading of a constitutional amendment to include digital data under provisions restricting government searches.
  • House roll call - SCS SJR 27 (05/16/2014): 3rd reading and final passage of a constitutional amendment to include digital data under provisions restricting government searches.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.